What are Facebook Tracking Pixels and why you should be using them on your website.

by Austin | May 8, 2016 | Marketing Tips & Tricks

What are Facebook Tracking Pixels and why you should be using them on your website.

Facebook tracking Pixels provide a very powerful way for you to build custom audiences for your Facebook ad campaigns and track how users interact with the content on your website.

What are Facebook Tracking Pixels?

There are many different types of Facebook Tracking Pixels and they all serve a specific purpose.  Some are designed to simply track users on your website, others are designed to track users who go to specific pages of your website such as cart or checkout pages.

How do Facebook Tracking Pixels work?

When you put a Facebook Tracking Pixel on your website it sends back user data to your Facebook ad manager account. This is incredibly beneficial for your Facebook ad campaigns.  Now you can specificity set your ads to target users who have been on your website.

Where the pixel is incredibly powerful is it lets you track and send ads to people who do specific things on your website such as fill out a form or go to the cart or checkout pages.

Say you want to create an ad for people who are very interested in your products. With the Facebook pixel installed on the cart and checkout pages you can now specifically target ads to users who have been on those pages.  In the case of the eCommerce websites if you are getting a lot of abandons on the cart or checkout page you can send follow up ads and try to reconnect with those users again through targeted Facebook ads.

How to create a Facebook Tracking Pixel

In order to create a pixel you will need a Facebook account as well as an ads manager account.

Step 1 Go to your ads manger account

Step 2 Go to the Facebook Pixel Tab or Tools Tab

Step 3 Click on Create a Pixel

Step 4 Create a name for your pixel. You can only have one pixel per ad account, so choose a name that represents your business.

Step 5 Click the except terms box and then click Create Pixel

That is it, your Facebook pixel is created!

How to obtain your pixel code and put it on your website.

• Step 1 Go back to the Facebook pixel tab and click on actions and then View Pixel Code.
• Step 2 Copy the code and then proceed to your website.

Note: if you are unsure how to add custom code to your website send the code to your website admin or hire a web developer to help. Need help? Click here….

• Step 3 Add the pixel code to the head section of your website. The code should be on all pages that you want to track.

Types of pixel codes

There are two different types of code that you will be embedding into the head sections of your website pages.

The Pixel base code and the Event Code

The pixel base code has to be the same on all pages that you want to track. The event code can change depending on the type of content you want to track on that page.

• View Content
• Search
• Add to cart
• Add to wishlist
• Initiate checkout
• Add payment info
• Make Purchase
• Lead
• Complete Registration

Now that the pixel code has been added to your website pages, the data will be sent back to your ads manager account where you can view the information and create targeted ads with it.

How to know if the pixels code is setup correctly on your website.

Facebook has created a special application called the Facebook Pixel Helper. When you have this installed in your browser you will be able to see if there are Facebook pixels installed on the web pages that you are browsing and if there are what types are being used.  For more information on installing the Pixel Helper please click the link below.  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ads-for-websites/pixel-troubleshooting

WHY YOU SHOULD BE BLOGGING IN 2016

by Austin | May 5, 2016 | Marketing Tips & Tricks

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Why you should be blogging in 2016

And tips on how to do it

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Blogs are one of the key tools for growing your business online and influencing potential clients to use your brand.

Blogs are also the easiest, most cost effective way to spread awareness and encourage engagement.

Blogs are essential for Search Engine Optimization

Every time you create a blog post you are adding new content to your website, this causes your web site to change, which causes the search engine spiders to crawl it again to note the changes. It leads to your website getting more traffic and essential inbound links.

Social media sharing of your blog posts is also very important as it creates inbounds links back to your website, which is essential for a successful SEO campaign.

Blogging regularly also keeps potential clients coming back to your website to see your latest blog posts as well as keeps them on the website longer, which increases your chances of them using your service.

Social Media and Blogs

As noted above social media also plays a huge roll in the successfulness of your blog. Social sharing of your blog will greatly increase the reach of your blog to potential clients. In the case of Facebook if potential clients like the content in your blog they will like and share it with their friends on Facebook which will greatly broaden your business reach to potential clients.

What type of content should I put on my blog?

This is one of the biggest questions that we are asked when it comes to blogging. And the answer is put content on your blog that is relevant to your business. Keep it simple,  professional and keep the content high quality.

A short list of content that is excellent for blog posts:

• Podcasts
• Case Studies
• Events
• Videos
• Presentations
• Photos
• eBooks
• Press Releases 

If you are planning an event put up a post about that. If you’re a restaurant add a picture of your latest dish and write a paragraph or two talking about it.  If you’re an auto mechanic you could write a blog post on why you need to do regular maintenance on your vehicle and provide a few tips.

You can also promote other businesses content on your blog page, make sure that they also share your content on theirs. You can greatly increase your brands together that way.  

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• Have social sharing links on your blog.
• Use relevant imagery that tells a story.
• Blog on a consistent basis, say once per week.
• Turn off the comments. You have a business to run, you do not have time to moderate comment sections on your website.

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